PII detection

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The pii detector

The pii detector identifies personally identifiable information (PII) and returns them together with their positions in the text as linked data in JSON-LD format (see also https://json-ld.org/).

The detector's output allows you to determine if a document contains potentially sensitive data and possibly create a new version of the text in which the PII is de-identified.

These are the information types pii can detect:

Information type	Notes
Personal attributes	Of a real person or a fictional character
Postal address
Bank account
IP address
E-mail address
URL
Financial product	Credit or debit card
Phone number

These are the properties of each information type:

Information type	Property	Linked data reference
Personal attributes
	Full name of the person	https://schema.org/Person
	First name	https://schema.org/givenName
	Last name	https://schema.org/familyName
	Age	https://schema.org/Number
	Gender	https://schema.org/gender
	Nationality	https://schema.org/nationality
	Date of birth	https://schema.org/birthDate
	Place of birth	https://schema.org/birthPlace
	Date of death	https://schema.org/deathDate
	Place of death	https://schema.org/deathPlace
	Any date or a time related to the person	https://schema.org/Date
Postal address
	Full address	https://schema.org/Text
	Street name and house number	https://schema.org/streetAddress
	Country	https://schema.org/addressCountry
	Postal code	https://schema.org/postalCode
	Locality	https://schema.org/addressLocality
	Region	https://schema.org/addressRegion
	PO box number	https://schema.org/postOfficeBoxNumber
Bank account
	IBAN code	https://schema.org/PropertyValue
	IBAN code country	https://schema.org/Country
IP address
	Address	https://schema.org/Text
E-mail address
	Address	https://schema.org/email
URL
	URL	https://schema.org/URL
Financial product
	Number of the credit/debit card	https://schema.org/Text
	Card Verification Value (CVV) or Card Verification Code (CVC)	https://schema.org/Number
	Card expiration date	https://schema.org/Date
Phone number
	Number	https://schema.org/telephone

Useful resources:

• How to request information detection API resources.
• How to interpret pii detector output.

Tip

To play with the JSON-LD object and get ideas for its possible uses, take a look at the JSON-LD playground site, where you can paste the JSON-LD object returned by the pii detector.